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Print Price: $84.99

Format:
Paperback
368 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198834298

Copyright Year:
2021

Imprint: OUP UK


Leadership

Third Edition

Marian Iszatt-White and Christopher Saunders

This accessible and comprehensive textbook draws on the reader's own experience of leadership in an employment context. The text adopts a critical and thematic approach to the discussion of core debates and emerging topics, while offering a wealth of case studies and other learning tools to help students put leadership theory into practice.

Readership : Post-experience students of leadership on MBA and executive MBA programmes, and those MSc and MA courses that cater for post-experience students. Also of interest for undergraduate courses that adopt a critical approach to leadership.

Part 1 - Defining the terrain
1. Why study leadership
2. Leadership, management and strategy
3. Leadership, power and influence
4. Critical approaches
Part 2 - Essentialist approaches
5. Born versus made
6. Transformational & charismatic
7. Leading teams and leading change
8. Authentic leadership
Part 3 - Relational approaches
9. Leaders and leading
10. Social construction of leadership
11. Leadership as practice
12. Responsible leadership for a sustainable world
13. Followership
Part 4 - Developing leaders: developing as a leader
14. Leadership development
15. Leadership identities

Instructor Resources
- Integrative case studies
- PowerPoint slides
- Suggestions for discussion points
- Video clips of inspirational speeches and discussions on leadership
Student Resources
- Web links
- Links to feeds from topical journals
- Online glossary

Dr Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in the area of leadership at the School of Management, Lancaster University.

Chris Saunders is the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Education at Lancaster University Management School.

Making Sense - Margot Northey
Leadership - Kevin Roe

Special Features

  • A critical analysis of leadership that is ideal for post-experience, postgraduate, and MBA students.
  • Thematic approach to the subject offers a framework within which readers can easily discern the multiplicity of leadership theories currently on offer.
  • A critical approach encourages the reader to fully get to grips with the key topics and debates in the field while developing their critical thinking skills and their own perspectives on the material presented.
  • Carefully designed learning features encourage readers to reflect on and advance their own leadership development.
  • Discusses the latest academic research in a truly student-friendly format, and provides a wealth of global examples to illustrate the link between leadership theory and practice.
New to this Edition
  • New chapter on leadership-as-practice highlights a movement that is still being developed within the field and encourages students to question how a practice view of leadership compares with more traditional notions of transformational, visionary, and charismatic leadership.
  • Further balanced content reflects both "good" and "bad" leadership, with a new chapter on followership, bad, and toxic leadership.
  • Links to the films, TV shows, books etc. used in the 'Leadership in the media' boxes are now included in the video links online resource, giving lecturers more opportunities to better tie the book to their teaching.
  • Revised case studies throughout now include contemporary figures, bodies and companies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, BP, Ray Kelvin, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Theresa May.